On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017, at 09:59, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> > Removing the parens causes it to output "at line number status
> current-line-number".
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu>
> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017, at 08:37, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> >> > I'm doing this inside a function:
> >> > echo at line number (status current-line-number)
> >> > But no matter where I put this in my function, it always outputs 2.
> >> > Am I using it incorrectly?
> >>
> >> Take it out of the parentheses.
>
> Your interpretation of my advice is too literal. Think. status is a
> command, use it like a command, but it apparently does not play well
> with command substitution.
>
> echo you are at line number
> status current-line-number
>
Okay, I see that works.
But I wonder why current-line-number behaves differently than
current-function and current-filename.
I can use parens around those to output them with an echo.
--
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.
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